The chapter opens with a flashback to the time when Dr. Bledsoe's mother was killed, and he was the only one who knew about her death. He kept saying that her spirit was with him, and that she was "by his side," and that he passed messages from her to his family. After his mother's death, he kept sending messages from his mother, either to himself or to his brother, who had run away from home because he didn't like the idea of his father being possessed by his mother